Doomed Flight MH370 has been 'found' on Google Earth, according to an Australian.

Australian Peter McMahon, a mechanical engineer, says he has worked in crash investigations for 25 years and has now discovered the lost planeThe flight, carrying 239 people, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

A massive search operation by China, Australia and Malaysia, costing £115m, came to an end in January 2017 without success.But Peter McMahon, 64, insists he has found the plane.

This is the penultimate question for this series of Burning Questions and I'm offering 3 points for a correct solution and 1 point for those who "almost" solve this logic puzzle.

Several of Ms. Carroll's students (Erica, Linda, Oliver and Sam) each gave an oral presentation today on different wild animals (antelopes, giraffes, monkeys and tigers). Match each student to their animal and grade (A, A-,B+,C+), and determine the length of each presentation (2, 3, 4 and 5 minutes).

1. The student who gave the presentation on tigers was either the student who spoke for 5 minutes or the presenter who got the A-.

2. Neither the presenter who gave the presentation on tigers nor the student who gave the presentation on antelopes was Sam.

Liberal leader Steven Marshall has declared a "new dawn" in South Australia after claiming victory in the SA election, with his party poised to form government for the first time in 16 years.

Mr Marshall arrived to a rock star's welcome at the Liberal election function, walking to the stage to the sound of The Killers song The Man.

"A massive thank you to the people of South Australia who have put their trust, their faith in me and the Liberal team for a new dawn, a new dawn for South Australia," he told cheering supporters a ... [more]

A new report that analyses data from Australia's top 100 companies shows that the average chief executive pay dropped from $5.5 million before the GFC to $4.7 million in 2011. But it has steadily crept back to $5.2 million.

2017 was the best year for jobs growth ever and that growth is continuing into this year with the number of jobs in Australia increasing for the 16th straight month in January – the longest consecutive run of jobs growth ever.

Labour force figures released today by the ABS show that seasonally adjusted employment increased by 16,000 to a record high of 12,453,500.

The Turnbull Government has put in place the right policy settings and this is now paying off with our economy creating, on average, around 1,100 new jobs a day.

Part-time employment rose by 65,900 over the month, to a record high, of 3,992,600, and is now 110,100 (or ... [more]

A Darwin businessman who used a "confirmation of Aboriginality" certificate to obtain a $407,000 Indigenous grant, has had the document called into question by the Aboriginal corporation that awarded it.

Allan Lodge, 48, was certified in November 2015 as being Aboriginal under the previous board and CEO of the NT Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation.

Chair Eileen Cummings said the current board of directors last night determined that Mr Lod ... [more]

Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76, British media is reporting his family as saying.

He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning (local time), according to a statement from his family.

"His family have kindly requested that they be given the time and privacy to mourn his passing, but they would like to thank everyone who has been by Professor Hawking's side — and supported him — throughout his life," the statement said.

His children Lucy, Robert and Tim said they were deeply saddened by their father's passing.

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX) : Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, Ford issued a press release stating:

If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1.... For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........twice a day.

Bill Shorten’s pledge comes as the latest in a series of deals on both sides of politics corrupting fair school funding plans.

Sun 11 Mar 2018

Almost a year ago we thought that peace had been declared in the school funding wars. True, the Turnbull government’s “Gonski” school funding changes fall well short on many fronts but the government did try to bury the special deals that have dogged school funding for decades. After less than a year Labor has resurrected them in a planned gift of $250 million to Catholic schools in the first two years of a new Labor government.

The former director of the Liberal Party, Tony Nutt, has secured two taxpayer-funded jobs that will see him paid $114,000 a year.

Mr Nutt, who oversaw the near-death election campaign of 2016 when Malcolm Turnbull squeaked home as Prime Minister, will take up a $93,000 a year post on the board of Australia Post and a separate $21,000 job on the National Museum of Australia Council.

The appointments were announced yesterday by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield.

Photo: Two people perished in the Yarloop bushfire in 2016, WA's last major fire. (AAP/DFES)

Farmers and volunteer firefighters say huge swathes of unmanaged land across Western Australia are presenting a major fire hazard, and have called for urgent action to avoid another tragedy.

They say two cooler and wetter than usual summers have allowed the State Government to drag its heels on the matter, and that political will is drying up as memories fade of devastating fires in recent years.

Mic Fels, who farms 50 kilometres north-east of Esperance, said an area of unallocated crown ... [more]

Donald Trump, Malcolm Turnbull hit on deal to exclude Australia from new US tariffs

By political reporter Jane Norman

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed Australia will be exempt from US President Donald Trump's new steel and aluminium tariffs — but denied the two leaders are working towards a new "security agreement".

Mr Trump hinted at the exemption earlier today when he tweeted he had spoken to Mr Turnbull, who he said was "committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship".

"Working very quickly on a security agreement so we don't have to impose steel or aluminium tariffs on our ally, the great na ... [more]